3000 ball bearings show crystal defects with Matt Parker

2017-05-11

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I recreated an old desk toy called Atomix to demonstrate crystal defects like vacancies, grain boundaries and stacking faults. We touch a little bit on close packing problems in mathematics. That's what Matt's video is all about.

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Point Defect
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Grain Boundary
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Stacking Fault
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Phase Boundary
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